tty_ldisc_reinit() doesn't race with neither tty_ldisc_hangup()
nor set_ldisc() nor tty_ldisc_release() as they use tty lock.
But it races with anyone who expects line discipline to be the same
after hoding read semaphore in tty_ldisc_ref().

We've seen the following crash on v4.9.108 stable:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000002260
IP: [..] n_tty_receive_buf_common+0x5f/0x86d
Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc
Call Trace:
 [..] n_tty_receive_buf2
 [..] tty_ldisc_receive_buf
 [..] flush_to_ldisc
 [..] process_one_work
 [..] worker_thread
 [..] kthread
 [..] ret_from_fork

tty_ldisc_reinit() should be called with ldisc_sem hold for writing,
which will protect any reader against line discipline changes.

Backport-first: b027e2298bd5 ("tty: fix data race between tty_init_dev
and flush of buf")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
Reported-by: syzbot+3aa9784721dfb90e9...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <d...@arista.com>
---
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 5e5da9acaf0a..a947719b4626 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ static void tty_driver_remove_tty(struct tty_driver 
*driver, struct tty_struct *
 static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
        struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
-       int retval;
+       int retval = 0;
 
        if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
            driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
@@ -1267,15 +1267,18 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct *tty)
        if (test_bit(TTY_EXCLUSIVE, &tty->flags) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return -EBUSY;
 
-       tty->count++;
+       tty_ldisc_lock(tty, MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
 
+       tty->count++;
        if (tty->ldisc)
-               return 0;
+               goto out_unlock;
 
        retval = tty_ldisc_reinit(tty, tty->termios.c_line);
        if (retval)
                tty->count--;
 
+out_unlock:
+       tty_ldisc_unlock(tty);
        return retval;
 }
 
-- 
2.13.6

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